The week in travel: January 21-25, 2013

Plans to build the world’s largest airport, at a cost of $5.6 billion, were
unveiled by authorities in Turkey.

The six-runway hub will be constructed on 77 million square metres of land
near Istanbul, and will have a capacity of 150 million passengers a year –
60 million more than Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport,
currently the busiest in the world. The airport will be built in four
stages. The first will be completed in 2017, after which it will be
operational with an annual capacity of 90 million.